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Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
Essayist
French Moralist
Jurist
Philosopher
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
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Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
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It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
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[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
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Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of just as we call money not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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